Restrictions are in place at a Suffolk poultry farm after a bird flu outbreak.
The city has periodically conducted such campaigns since its initial bird flu outbreak in 1997.
Predicting the path of a swine flu outbreak is next to impossible, public health officials say.
And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?
As commentators quickly pointed out, the President during the first swine-flu outbreak was a Republican, Gerald Ford.
Then talk of a new and unusual avian flu outbreak began to surface.
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The state of Pennsylvania used a similar ESRI program in 2001 to contain a bird flu outbreak on several farms.
Sunday's emergency declaration signaled for these centers to devote their resources to monitoring and responding to the swine flu outbreak.
By Tuesday, Mexican health officials suspect that the swine flu outbreak has caused more than 159 deaths and roughly 2, 500 illnesses.
"We are cautiously optimistic that this particular strain will not be more severe than a normal seasonal flu outbreak, " Napolitano said.
The commission also decided to quarantine all PSG players and staff for 72 hours in bid to contain a swine flu outbreak.
And sales of new products Cold-EEZE Oral Spray and QuickMelts, have sold at an unexpected, brisk pace due to the flu outbreak.
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The flu outbreak this winter season has laid low millions of Americans.
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But closing during a general flu outbreak is not required, he said.
His family lives in the village of La Gloria in the state of Veracruz, where a flu outbreak was reported on April 2.
Media in China are calling on the authorities to release timely information on a new bird flu outbreak that has already claimed two lives.
The U.S. Department of Education said Friday that 433 public and nonpublic schools in 17 states had been closed because of the flu outbreak.
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Even before the flu outbreak, Mexico had been especially hard hit, because its economy is so closely tied to that of the United States.
For example, in the event of a serious flu outbreak in this country there would be a need for mechanical ventilator deployments to hospitals.
The bird flu outbreak coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people in China.
Most of that money will go to the Health and Human Services Department to prepare for an influenza pandemic, such as an avian flu outbreak.
In Devon, health experts are attempting to contain a flu outbreak by shutting a school attended by Britain's youngest swine flu patient - a 12-year-old girl.
Although we are still at the stage of observing developments and accumulating data concerning the ongoing H1N1 flu outbreak, we've already learned a few important lessons.
The recent discovery that the 1918 flu outbreak, which killed 50 million people, was caused by an avian flu that moved to humans only worsens the anxiety.
The swine flu outbreak in 2009 was not considered grave enough for this treatment, prompting instead the less fearful 'Catch it, Bin it, Kill it' campaign.
The swine flu outbreak is spawning debate about how people get information during health emergencies -- especially at a time when news sources are becoming less centralized.
"It's looking more and more like we're going to have a big flu outbreak this fall as soon as the kids get back to school, " Belshe told CNN Radio.
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One of the reasons medical experts are nervous about the swine flu outbreak is that many of the people who have died in Mexico have been young and otherwise healthy.
While the H1N1 swine flu outbreak has received most of the public and media attention during the past year, another virus has sickened a huge number of Americans (and others).
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